The federal and Ontario governments are offering up to $1.5 million over two years to improve the removal, handling, and disposal of deadstock.
The Increasing Deadstock Capacity Initiative will provide funding support for deadstock management that addresses immediate and short-term deadstock capacity needs at businesses and municipalities.
The Initiative will support new and existing deadstock collectors, renderers and composting facilities who provide service to customers such as abattoirs and sales barns, that need to dispose of dead animals.
It is also open to waste management companies, commodity associations, and municipalities.
The governments said these subsidies “aimsto better serve the needs of livestock farmers through increasing capacity and improving sustainability.”
It will be delivered through the Agricultural Adaptation Council.
Applications are open now until Sept. 23, 2023, and projects must be completed by Feb. 1, 2025.
Guideline and application materials are available on the AAC website at www.adaptcouncil.org/program/deadstock.
